The Availability of the Cincinnati Can
didates.
lhiehauaii's nomination does not takoas was
expected. His friends supposed that his name
would combine every shade of opinion, from
the nio.-t decided freesoilisin to ihegiiost ultra
slave propngaiidisni, in his support. The most
intractable bolter of bygone days would, it
was anticipated, return to the fold, and a gen
eral era of good feeling would follow the an
nouncement that the veteran politician had been
placed at the head of the democratic ticket.
Put the plan, after all, does not. work. lhi
ehauaii's antecedents are against him. llic
peculiar friends who have been most instru
mental in engineering his nomination will dam
age him. His associate on the ticket, Mr.
Prcckcnridge, will damage him. And last, not
least, the platform upon which lie runs ought
to finish him.
We need not refer to the notorious fact that
(Jen. .Jack-on and Mr. Polk, while Presidents,
expressed in uimiistnkcable terms their utter
want of confidence in him, and their convic
tion of his infidelity to democratic principles,
The opinion which the former had of Pachau
-1111 may be obtained from his surviving and
most intimate associates ; and those who de
sire Polks, may consult the manuscript diary
which he has left, and which records the im
pressions of every day of his Administration.
Indeed we have heard that tlie only reason it
is not published, is the severe reflections it
contains upon Mr. Puehanan, Secretary of
State under President Polk.
Mr. Puehanan has spent many years in pub
lic service, and though timid and time-serving
to a fault, has, under the malign influence of
associates whom he had not the courage to re
sist, committed political errors which even the
most reckless might hesitate to fa<*e. To go no
further back than the last four years, were the
patriotic sensibilities of our countrymen abroad
ever more justly shocked than by the disrepute
into which the American legation fell, while he
was our minister to St. James 'i Was there
ever before a representative of this government
abroad who would wink at the abuses which
are charged upon his subor inates in oilicc,
when the government dispatch bags and the
seal of the American Legation was used to give
circulation to incendiary and republican appeals
to the revolutionists of Europe.
Then look at our minister, against his deli
berate judgment, dragged to the conference at
Ostein.!, and putting his name to that piratical
manifesto which has so disgraced us in the
eyes of the world—a manifesto which recom
mends that if Spuin refuses to sell the island
of Cuba, we should "wrest" it from her.—
When we consider, too, that the foreign policy
resolutions of the Cincinnati Convention, of
which Sonic was the advocate and author, em
body the recommendations of the Ostend man
ifesto, and that their inevitable result will be
to plunge this country into an unnecessary
and wicked war, ruinous to the material and
moral interests of the nation, what shall be
said of the conservative, ' safe" tendencies
of the candidate who stands pledged to carry
them out? llerc is a man who, in his youth
wore his throat raw in execrating a war which
a majority of the people now believe that we
could not avoid, and who now, when the snows
of seventy years have whitened his head, stim
ulates his countrymen to a war of aggression
which, for its purposes and consequences, must
be abhorrent to every Christian and patriotic
man. ft cannot be that the sober sense of
the North will sanction such reckless infatua
tion. They will not follow Buchanan in com
plying with a policy the only motive for the
adoption of which is to satisfy the demands of
the slauery propagandists, and the political
exigencies of such mca : s Sonic, Saunders and
Sickles.
If again we look at that portion of Buchan
an's platform which relates to domestic af
fairs, we find it, equally objectionable. We
find it, in effect, an assertion of the ultra-sou
thern doctrine of •'popular sovereignty," which
forbids either the National Congress or the
settlers of a territory to exclude slavery from
it, and whi h places that local and anti-repub
lican institution under federal protection, in
whatever territory it may be carried, and des
pite of the prohibitory enactments of its leg
islature. Is it likely that northern freemen
who sympathise with their suffering kinsmen
and friends who have emigrated to Kansas,
ami are now si niggling at the peril of life it
self to establish the interests of free institu
tions and free labor there, will sanction this?
In regard to Breekenridge, the candidate
for the Vice-Presidency, his encounter with
Mr. Cutting is fresh in the minds of every one.
What Douglas did for the Nebraska bill in the
Senate, ho did in the House. He bullied it
through ; and, in performing his task, began
that series of porstiuilitics and violence which
has so disgracefully culminated in the recent
ruffianly achievement of Brooks. He may be
n democrat, but, if so, he is a democrat of a
pattern which cannot deserve the sanction of
men imbued with northern civilization or genu
inc democracy.— Ereniitt* Vt>*t.
Will. BIVIIAXAX CARRY PKXXSYJ.VA.XIA.—
This may be considered by the jubilant Buchan
an men as a singular question, espe< ially in
view of the extraordinary pr mi'ses male at
Cincinnati. We know that Pennsylvania is
set down as sure for Buchanan, at a very high
figure, and we do not doubt that his friends
believe all that they say, and expect to make
good all that they have promised. But all
sanguine men are liable to error, and their
exultation at their success in the nomination,
has somewhat bewildered their faculties, and
prevented them for the time being from exer
eising a eool and dispassionate jud-riucut.—
They will probably think us far astray when
we say, in all candor, that we lank their chan
ces of carrying Pennsylvania or any other
Northern State, very slender. We do not ex
pect to convince them of their error, nor do
we care to do so. Confidence leads to care
lessness, and we may profit by it. Neverthe
less, we say to them and to the country, that
If the opposition to Buchanan and the pro
slavcrv platform, in this State, can be cordial
ly united, Mr. Buchanan will he beaten in bl
own State. And we say further, that no
honorable moans will be left untried to bring
about such a union, for which there is a daily
increasing desiro among the people. There
is a union already on tlie State ticket, and
there arc sound reasons for believing that this
anion will be extended to the Presidential can
vass. We therefore suv to our friends in oth
er States, that we in Pennsylvania are for un
ion for freedom and for victory, and that we
by no means give up the old Keystone as hope
less. So far from this, we have never wit
nosed more buoyancy of spirit, more keen
ness lor the cont'd t, more spirit of union and
harmony, or more resolution to win a glorion
victory l>y dc orving it, in 1 he opposition ranks,
■ Inn at t his an mien!.
The friends of Mr. P :ci anau at Cincinnati
boldly asserted tiiat there would lie no fight
in Pennsylvania, if the "favorite Son" was
nnin : nited. Mr. Puehanaji they said would
wu k over th • coarse in triumph, and that the
opposition would be'feelde and helpless. They
will soon awake from this dream. So far from
there being no fight, we look for one of the
closest and best contested struggles ever'seen
in this State, or any other State, and while
we make no boasts, we may be permitted to
say that we expect to win the race ; and we
know that this is the opinion of men who tho
roughly understand the present state of Penn
sylvania politic .
We give fair notice that we intend to con
test the election with Mr. Puehanan in his own
State, and that we intend to use all honora
ble means to defeat liiiu. Although a Penn
sylvania!!, he stand on a platform opposed to
the honor, the welfare, the liberty, and the in
tegrity of this State, and in that position he is
unworthy of the suffrages of her people. In
a few days we hope to see a union of the oj>-
positiou effected, and the contest fairly begun.
Then we shall see how much the boasts of his
frit nds at Cincinnati are worth.— Pittsburg
Gazette.
How Pccii.vNWN Til-: IT THK Hor.SK.—A ve
nerable citizen of Washington (Mr. A.) relat
ed to us 011 yesterday the following incident
in Mr. Puchanau's career. Mr. A., in the
year 1813, was the head of a gang of ship
carpenters who went from Kensington, near
Philadelphia, to Erie, for the purpose of build
ing Commodore Perry's fleet. Oil their way
to Erie they passed through llarrisburg, where
the Pennsylvania Legislature was then in ses
sion, of which body Jas. Puehanan was a mem
ber. The Legislature invited the carpenters
to attend its session, and received them stand
ing. Put James Puehanan was so bitterly
opposed to the war that lie refused to partici
pate in this mark of respect to these patriotic
mechanics, and left the House in disgust!
No comment is necessary on the above.—
Every mechanic in the country will make his
own comment on it at the polls.— Washington
tJrgri n.
The liuiepeudi'nl Democrat , Concord,
X. 11., whose Editor, Coo. G. Fogg, esip,
was the chief Secretary of the Kansas Inves
tigating Committee, as the result of two months
painful experience in the Territory, says :
" Instead of the wrongs of the people of
Kansas having been exaggerated, the half of
tin it* wrongs has never been told. And this
the testimony taken by the Congressional Coni
mission will conclusively show. And yet, no
oral or written testimony can portray the
height and depth, the length and breadth of
the outrages perpetrated in that Territory un
der the color of law, and by authority of men
who hold commissions under the President of
tie Uui'el States. Including the Governor,
Judges, Marshal, and Indian Agents, they are
engaged in one consolidated conspiracy, hav
ing for its object the expulsion of every Free-
State settler from the Territory, and the es
tablishment of Slavery therein, at all hazards,
not excepting civil war and_ a dissolution of
the L'uiou."
THREE years ago Pierce, Douglas and Cass
were the recognized leaders of the National
Democratic party, while Buchanan was put
aside on a Foreign Mission. Now Pierce,
Douglas and Cass altogether, with the whole
patronage of the Federal Government at their
backs, cannot command half the votes in their
National Conventian. We defy any candid
man to say that the reason for this is not found
in the ps age of the Nebraska bill. We chal
lenge any candid man to deny that the chief
grounds of Buchanan's strength are his non
participation in the passage of the Nebraska
bill and the fact that he isn't either Pierce,
Douglas or Cass.— N. Y. Tribune.
ficg 0 " Among the most prominent men at
the Cincinnati Convention was the notorious
Dr. Stringfellow, of the Squatter Sovereign.
Douglas, it is said, was his first choice ; but
lie very cordially endorsed the nomination of
Buchanan. He pledged the unanimous su]>-
port of the border cut-throats for the nominees
of the Convention.
BnoniiEAD ov BIVIIAXAX. —Senator Brod
head, of Pennsylvania, openly declared, a few
days ago, in Washington city, says the Organ
that Mr. Buchanan could not carry Pennryl
vnnia. Mr. 1 Jrodhoad is a shrewd politician
and knows Pennsylvania as well as any man
living.
tefF- The Washington letter-writers say that
the PIKKCK men at Washington compelled the
ruffian BKOOKS to stay away from the Cincin
nati Convention. He was regularly chosen as
a delegate from South Carolina, but PIERCE
preferred that he should not have to drag
along nnder the weight of such friends.
trif The brother of the waiter Keating,who
was shot at \\ illard s Hotel, in 'Washington,
publishes a card, in which he says the para
graph going the rounds that Mr. Herbert had
given money ami property to the widow and
the children of the deceased, is entirely untrue.
The Klmira (X. V.) Adreriiscr says :
Gibson's saw mill, about one mile this side of
Corning, was totally destroyed by fire on Fri
day night. It was a very large establishment
and the loss must be heavy, though wc were
unable to ascertain the amount.
tesf They are canonizing " gutta pereha
Brooks." Monday afternoon two magnificent
canes were passed through Hiehmond, Va.,
by Adams' Express, eu route for Washington,
as presents to the lion. Mr. Brooks. One
was from the ship-builders of Charleston, and
the other from other citizens.
fcj" The Milwaukie American says that
cattle and horses are dying by hundreds 011
the American Bottom, and in that region in
Illinois—supposed to result either from the
effects of some poisonous herbs growing there,
or some virulent disease, which has become
epidemic among them.
1 lie Hon. Lot M. Morrill of Augusta,
Chairman of the Democratic State Committee
of Maine, lias given notice that he cannot snj
port IJuelianan ami the Cincinnati Platform.
ilrabfori) ilqiorter.
K. <). GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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The People's Convention.
I'LIII.AOELRIIIA, Tuesday, Juno 17, 1856.
Tlie Convention was called to order at 11
1-2 o'clock, and the Hon. ROHEIIT KMMKIT of
New York chosen temporary Chairman.
Mr. EMMET, in returning thanks for the ho
nor conferred upon him, said :"""The formation
of a new party at the expiration of eighty
years is singular event, and it becomes us on
establishing it to be sure that the course is
justified.
He had, lie said, for fifty years been a De
mocrat, and had been connected with the par
ty bearing that name until that party had left
the only platform on which he could stand.—
In allusion to the nomination of Mr. Buchan
an, he said that being personally an admirer
of that gentleman he would not occupy his
present position if it were not that politically
he was deadly hostile to liini.
The Cincinnati platform was the worst coun
terfeit of tine Democratic principles lie had
ever seen, and in this connection Mr. EMMET
contrasted the former position of Mr. Buchan
an regarding the Missouri Compromise, with
his sudden tumble on the Cincinnati platform.
He alluded to the obloquy attempted to be
thrown upon the Republican party, by denom
inating it the party to gather all the " isms "
together, and said : Well, we will connect
thorn into the holiest of all isms—that is pa
triotism. For himself, he had given in his ad
hesion to the Buffalo platform. He gloried
then in being a Frce-soilcr, and he was proud
of being so still.
We came to treat Slavery not as a moral
question, but us a political evil. It exists,
and we must resist its aggressions. If the
Missouri line cannot be restored by an act of
Congress, we must lind some other way. Kan
sas is suffering front evils. Would to (Jod we
could find some hastier means to release her
than by the election of a President.
Concessions arc necessary in order thai
there may be harmonious action, resulting in
the choice of an acceptable candidate. Princi
ples are more important than men. Ileing all
agreed in principle 1 invoke delegates not to
permit predilections to interfere with the se
lection of an available candidate. Then may
we strangle the hydra-headed monster that
threatens to involve the country in ruin.
Mr. KM MKT, during his address, was fre
quently interrupted by applause.
G. G. Foou, of .New-Hampshire, and THOM
AS G. MfTcuKt.i., of Ohio, were appointed tem
porary Secretaries.
The I!cv. 11. I). Parnes, on invitation, be
sought Divine guidance in the deliberations of
the Convention and sanction of its proceeding.
Each delegation then named one of its mem
bers to form a Committee on Credentials.
A resolution .was offered by Mr. WII.MOT,
which was adopted, providing for the appoint
ment of a Committee of one from each .State,
Territory and District represented, to be se
lected by the Delegations, to report a plat
form, and that no balloting shall be had until
a platform was rejiorted anil adopted, and that
resolutions on the subject be referred to the
Committe without debate.
A Committee to select and report the names
of permanent officers was selected.
Mr. PEIIGKX, New York, moved that each
morning's session be opened with prayer.—
Agreed to.
Notices were given by various committees
of meetings in the afternoon.
Mr. HAVENS, Md., moved that a Committee
to consist of one from each State and Terri
tory represented, be appointed to form a Na
tional Committee for the next year, and that
they elect their own Chairman.
Amended, by providing that the names of
the Committee be announced on Wednesday
morning and passed.
At the afternoon session, the Committee on
permanent organization reported the name of
Col. HENRY S. L.vk'K, of Indiana, as I 'resident
with a Vice President from each State.
The Committee on Credentials made a par
tial report, and 110 other business being before
the Convention, speeches were made by lion.
CAI.KH S. SMITH, of Ohio, Senator Winsox
and others, when the Convention adjourned
until Tuesday morning.
Hie Pennsylvania Delegation had a prelimi
nary meeting 011 .Tuesday morning for the pur
pose of ascertaining the preference of the dele
gation for nominees of the Convention. The
vote was McLean 17 ; Fremont 5 ; Chase 1 ;
Seward 1 ; they subsequently instructed the
vote of the State to be cast for McLean.—
Judge WII.MOT was to present the name of
MCLEAN and Pennsylvania claims foi him on
Wednesday morning.
The nomination appears to lay between Mc-
Lean and Fremont, with the chances pretty
cquailv divided. \\ ith either wc can sweep
the Free States, and overthrow the dominion
of the Slave Power.
We shall publish next week, a full
of the doings of the Convention.
Republican State Convention.
The Republican State Convention met at
Philadelphia on Monday morning ; nearly eve
ry County in the State being represented.
Hou. JOHN* AI.USOX, of Heaver, was chosen
as permanent Chairman, with a number of
Vice Presidents and Secretaries.
The nomination for State officers made at
Harrisburg in March last, was unanimously
endorsed.
Ajnotion was made to instruct the delegates
at large for M'LKA.V, but it was finally with
drawn.
The following persons were elected as dele
gates at large to the Republican National Con
vention :
ITEI.KO ATKS AT I.AKCE. AI.TKRSATKS.
D. Wilmot, AVM. Jessiiji,
11. I>. Maxwell, John ltolierts,
Thos. Williams, J. W. Moorheml,
John Allison, A. H. Hood,
John Dirk, David Taforart,
James Vcrreo, Charles Oiblions.
The Convention then adjourned to meet af
ter the final adjournment of the National Con
vention.
CON.I:ESS.— IN the Senate, Mr. TIU'MBLU.
has presented his bill to compromise the Kan
sas question by placing the territory under the
jurisdiction of the territorial government and
laws of Nebraska, and withdrawing all the of
ficers of the former. Mr. Tin Mitiu.advocated
this project as a mode of adjusting the present
and preventing future difficult)*, but Mr. Dm :<■-
i. AS expressed the opinion that the proposed
measure would only extend, instead of curing
Uie evil. The remedy would, at all events, be
only temporary, and would not prevent the re
currence of difficulties at the next election of
members of the territorial legislature.
Mr. CmrrKXHKN has offered a resolution that
the President be requested to place (Jen. Scorr
in command of the troops in Kansas, as a mea
sure calculated to promote peace in that Terri
tory. The resolution was opposed by the Ad
ministration Senators.
.Mr BITI.KK'S long-announced remarks upon
the Massachusetts resolutions, and in answer
to Si MVEit, was made last week, occupying two
days. Whether the Senator was more sober
than usual, or whether the spirit manifested by
the Republican Senator influenced him, we can
not say, but he made less display of his "plan
tation manners" than usual, and when answer
ed by Senator Wusax, evinced an amiability
altogether inconsistent with iiis previous de
! durations.
Mr. HAMLIN, of Maine, formally took his
leave of the Peinoeratie party, and resigned
his position as Chairman of the Committee on
Commerce. Mr. H. said that he could r.ot
fellowship with any party which endorsed the
Itepeal of the Missouri Compromise, and as
the Cincinnati Convention had done so fully,
and Mr. BICIIANAX had plaeed himself upon
the platform, he could not support him. We
will publish Mr. HAMLIN'S remarks next week.
In the House, no business has yet been tran
sacted. The "2">th inst. has been set apart for
considering Mr. (i ROW'S report, admitting Kan
sas as a State with the Topeka Constitution,
w hen we presume the business of the session
will again actively commence.
(J rsT.vvrs KOKKXOR, who was the Dcmocra
tie Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in the year
1853, has come out strongly against the ex
tension of Slavery, anil the Democratic party,
as being in its faior. JLe is saiil to be a man
of great influence with the German population
of the State. Illinois, hitherto the most de
voted of all the Western States to the Demo
cratic party, seems to have a number of its
leading I >emocrats very much discontented with
the present position of things. With the aid
of such men as Tut MD11.1., ISISSKM. and KOKII
xEIi, it will le strange indeed if the opposition
does not triumph there.
Ksriy- We learn from the Pittsburg Journal
that a meeting of the Democratic State Com
mittee was held in that place, the principal
object under consideration being the repudia
tion of TIMOTHY* IVES, the candidate for Sur
veyor General. It is charged that he did not
render a complete account of State funds with
in his care. Wo do not doubt that Mr. IVES
is guilty of all the rascality laid at his door,
but the idea of such men as Joux W. FORXKY
& Co. reptldiu/ing a man for dialmvesh) is sim
ply ridiculous. Mr. IVES need have no fears
of being thrown off the ticket.
The trial of the negro Wilson, charged
with the murder of Capt. Palmer, on hoard
the schooner Kudora Imogcne, while lying at
anchor near City Island in November last,was
commenced at the Court-llouse, White Plains,
\\ estchestcr County, 011 Thursday afternoon,
the 12th inst., and terminated at 1 p'elock Sa
turday following, when the Jury found the
prisoner guilty of murder in the first degree.
Wilson was, upon the rendition of the verdict,
sentenced by the Court to be executed 011 the
25th of .July proximo.
LATEST FROM KANSAS. —We find the latest
and most reliable intelligence from. Kansas, in
the last (Jirrgo Cluzcttc, edited by DEI-HIE, one
of PIERCE'S postmasters, as follows :
KANSAS OCTUAGE. —The abolitionists in Kan
sas are murdering the Southern eiuigrauts to
that Territory by scores, not even sparing de
fenceless women and children.
GOVERNOR TXEEDER IN* HUSTON. —Goverin r
UEEDEU addressed on audience of three thou
sand people iu Boston, at the Trcmout Tem
ple, on Tuesday last, on Kansas affairs. lie
was to repeat his address at Cambridge.
THE NORTH AMERICAN CONVENTION.)
The atiti-FiWmore Americans met in Con
vention at New-York, on Wednesday last.—
The attendance from the Northern States was
large. The Convention was permanently or
ganized by the election of ROBERT T. COXK.II>,
of Pennsylvania, as Chairman, with other of
ficers.
Friday morning Ex-Governor Colby present,
ed a communication from the Republican Na
tional Executive Committee, appointed at Pitts
burg, stating that the Pittsburg Convention
desired to include in their invitation for a Con
vention in Philadelphia on the 17th of June all
who are opposed to the extension of Slavery,
as there was no reason why all should not unite
' who were opposed to the aggressions of slave
i ry, and great reason why all should unite, as
; union is the only means offering a hope of sue
j cess.
A motion being made to refer the matter to
a Committee, a lengthy discussion ensued,
i I'he matter was finally referred to a Com
mittee, of which GKOKCK LAW was Chairman.
The Committee reported a series of resolutions,
is effect that the Convention )>rocced to indi
! cate, by a series of ballotings their preference
j for persons to be placed in nomination forean
i didates for the Presidency aud Vice-Presiden
cy ; that a committee be appointed to confer
i with the proposed nominees, and with the
Philadelphia Convention, in regard to said
i nomination ; and that the Convention continue
in session during the present week, until said
Committee report.
The Convention adopted the report, and
1 proceeding to informal ballotings, and the tenth
ballot stood as follows :
RANKS :,Z
.M I.KAN '24
FKKMONT IS
The Convention then proceeded to an infor
mal ballot for Vice President, which resulted
in the selection of W.u. F. JOHNSTON, of Penn
sylvania.
A committee <>f conference was then appoint
ed, and the Convention adjourned until Thurs
day noon.
LETTER FROM KANSAS.
The following letter was written by llknky
Cami-bku., formerly of this place, to a friend,
and handed to us for publication. It is not
necessary to say those who know Mr. C., that
lie is incapable of misrepresentation, and that
his statements can lie implicitly relied on. If
there has been any one who has thought the
reports from that ill-fated Territory exaggeru
: ted or overdrawn, they will find that .Mr. Cami*-
bki.i.'s observation and experience corroborates
the accounts we have received from other
, sources :
I.awrknce, K. T., June <l, I*so.
Fkikxd I'. : Here I am in the doomed city
of Lawrence ; 1 have walked about until I am
1 tired, so let me trespass on your time and good
nature a little. After traveling through lowa
for about three weeks, I landed at Leavenworth
city last Friday. I found it in great excite
ment. This place had been mobbed, sacked,
and burned a few days before. The Free-
State men had retaliated and murdered some
pro-slavery men, and the Abolitionists must be
driven from the territory. As soon as we land
ed (1 had a friend with me) a pro-slavery man
came up to me and asked where we were go
ing ? We replied to the Leavenworth Hotel.
You are in danger, said he ; it is very danger
ous. 1 replied we had just come into the
place, and did not know what place was safe ;
and went up to the Hotel. After a little three or
f air border-ruffians came in, one having a re
volver on each side and Bowie-knife in his
i hand, and somewhat intoxicated ; coming up
to my friend, lie demanded, " Are you a Free-
State man ?" His answer was that he was a
Wisconsin man. He replied, '• I want to cut
J your d—d throat." After bullying about for
a few minutes, he and his gang left. The Free-
State men were afraid to say anything, else
their houses might be torn down over their
heads. The next day we attended a law-and
ordcr meeting, got up by the very rankest of
the pro-.-lavery party, as they said to calm the
j excited passions of the people. A set of rcso
, lutions was read, one appointing a vigilance
committee of seven men, not known to com
munity, to see that all disorderly and obnox
ious persons be kept out of the place ; which
meant all Free-State men that dared to speak
their sentiments. The rest of the resolutions
wore of the most ultra pro-slavery kind, de
nouncing and threatening the abolitionists and
Ktnigrant Aid Society, Ac. The speeches were
very liery, denouncing any one that dared to
put forth an effort to make Kansas a free State;
calling him an Abolitionist, a disorganize!*, and
a dangerous member of society, saying that if
i peaceful measure would not keep him quiet,
j their neighbors over the river raised heuip snf
i ticient to do it. They broke up in a quarrel,
, jjpme of them being too liberal to let the rcso
! lutions pass i>eaccably. I went in and heard
the Congressional Investigating Committee
take some testimony. Mr. Siikbmax, of Ohio,
is one of the most gentlemanly men I ever met:
lie argued his point clearly and with great
force, and then waited patiently to hear the
weak, senseless rejoinder of Oi.ivkk, of Mo.—
If ever words convey their true meaning, it is
Border-Huttiun, when applied to Whitfield,who
was standing by with his coat off", his red ilan
ncl shirt open at the neck, and the tobacco
juice running down his face ; a pretty speci
men for a member of Congress. The next day
I came on to Lawrence—distauce 35 miles.—
Of course you have read half a dozen different
accounts of the sacking and burning of this
place. The version of the affair by the resi
dents, is that the bogus Brand Jury found bills
:of indictment agaiust several of the citizens
1 here, and they were given to United States
Marshal Donalson to serve. HP, instead
coming and serving them, spent a week or two
in" collecting a posse, consisting chiefly of South
Carina and Georgia inen aud Horder-Kufli at,
and one evening came and encamped near tV
place. The next morning he eame into town
and arrested several of the citizens. S..r Me
Border-Ruffians appeared on tlie hill ami form
ed and marched into town. Here they w •
addressed hy Atchison and some others—j),„
alson also made a speech delivering them <>J
into the hands of Sheriff' Jones, who said hi
authority had been defied in this i.lw,. !
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now lie would execute the laws ; that tin- J-v,
State Hotel had been declared a nuisance la
the Grand Jury, and he would destroy it
gave the proprietor 15 minutes to move |„'
things out ; he of course could not ; >0 ]J
fastened it up and left. Jones planted lib
cannon, three in number, about 150 fei-t ■
front of it, and corainenced firing. After lir
ing 21) shots, and only making a few holes j„
the wall, they went at the door with tie- r
hatchets and broke it in ; they then earri, '{
2 1-2 kegs of powder into the cellar and jMlta
slow match to it. By the explosion, the build
ing was badly shattered, and set on lire and
burned down.
This Hotel was (lie finest and best furnished
building west of St. Louis ; built of stone,
stories high, aud cost furnished about &5n oon
The molt then commenced to break open tie
stores and search for plunder, and Sharp's Hi
ties, money, goods and provisions were frwlv
taken. About 12 or 15 of Sharp's rifles was
all they could find. The cannon had previous.
Iv been delivered up to V. S. Marshal. After
staying about until night, some of them set fire
to Gov. Robinson's house, which with all its
contents was consumed. The type of the print
ing offices were scattered in the street, and
presses thrown into the river. Most of tl„-
citizens left the town and found shelter under
the neighboring trees and the ravines ; their
leaders had just been arrested and taken awav,
and no one fit for a head could be found. Tile
place is fortified bv eight earthen redoubts or
forts, and no 2 or 30u men could have taken
it had they tried to defend it.
It appears to be the policy of the Huffians
to worry and ha miss the Free-State men out
After they went from here, about 3D of tlu-in
got together near Palmyra au-1 l'rairiccitvand
formed a camp ; took prisoner the foremost of
the Free-State men, and took their horses and
wagons, and ordered their families to have
The Free-State men organized into a eompanv
and sent scouts over the country to find the
thieves' camp. On Sunday night tlu-v found
it in a deep ravine ; it cou.-isted of '■) wajon-.
10 or 11 horses and a lot of provisions mostly
stolen (pressed they call it) from the Free-
State men, and some 30 or 3. men poorlv an::-
ed with muskets, six or eight Sharp'- rifles am!
a lot of Revolvers. The Free-State men num
bered about 30, armed with Sharp's rifle— a
regular little battle ensued ; the Free-Stat
men were victorious, severely, if not mortally
wounding 0 of the enemy, and taking :'t pri
soners, beside retaking 4 of their men that bi
been held us prisoners. One Free-State wan
was badly wounded, and three others partialis
My friend and 1 went down there the day af
ter the battle. Some of the soldiers are dtl
friends of ours, so we were invited intocanip:
talked a good deal with them : their grit •
up, and whose would not be Their pnVtners
are some of them Col. Buford's men,souie )L-
I sourians and two Wvandatt Indians.
The Border-llflians not pretend to deny that
tliey came here for the purpose of plundering
the Free-State people. Some of their wound
ed they got away. < hie of whom we hear tir
since died. Five of their horse> were shot ib
the rest with all the stores and anus fell tot:.-
victors. Two of the wounded prisoners I -aw:
one is shot in the uiouth with a mu-kr' ba...
tearing the tongue and tonsils of the throa- 1
entirely to pieces and bulging 10-tieath tbeear"- 1
tid artery. The surgeon has nut ye! h I
able to extract it. If he lives, he wii ; no- I
speak again. The other reeeived a dmt J I
one of Sharp's ritles, the hall eiitcriiHT the'*a<fc I
between the shoulder blades, and coma- |
in the front part of the neck. Ihe oi:y I
geon in the place, Br. Bralnim, was a l ri ' ' I
er in their camp at the time of their ait: 1 - I
As soon as they saw the day was lost, 0!! '
them seized a revolver and said he weul'l I
the d—d old Abolitionist, and find a 1 ! f j
he ran, but was wounded three time.-. J B
all were prisoners, the Br. took the t" 1,1 9
ed men to his house and provided for - ■
After having a good time among >-' i "
and soldiers we gave them some material - ■
and come home. . J
The whole country is up in arm-. ail " 1 ■
a regular guerrilla war. About •<" w"
gone from here to-day to meet a hod) ■ -J9
sourians that are coining up from We
The U. S. Troops are encamped here- 'U'®9
not interfere on cither side. Ihcir-} 1 ! ' l ')9
arc decidedly on the side of the l- u ' ■
men, and could Col. Sunnier have tl- 1 ' 9
ty independent of Bov. Shamnm. tia.c
be a stop put to the Missouri inva> ~>i JS
I expect to be about here a week "rt w
if thing turns up I will let yon km |tt
not think I had .-4) niueli to say, hu. ■" 9
jeet is the onlv one heard about h<- 1
'As ever, 11. 9
Rearm M EKIN-.; . I
Quite a large Republican meeting
Carboudale the 13th inst. '
sided, and the meeting was /*^B
Hon. (i. A. Grnnv, and others.
lutions were adopted coiuleninat'd - 19
Mr N 9K
Rullianism, and the attack on - • •- B
Secretary M\m v unreserved V
that Mr. Bmi.i- will be disini.---i' ! 9